This is an analysis of the poem What Price So High Should One Agree To Pay that begins with:
What price so high should one agree to pay,
That comes to sacrifice one's life away....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabcdcd AefXfXe AXXXcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110101 1101011101 101001000101 01011 01010011000 101011 01010001 1111110101 01011010 10001 1010011110001 1010100 1110000101101 10 1111110101 001101010 0101010 10100011 001001100010 010100101010 00100011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, those, one are repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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